The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun

hdndjsbbs

Extremely verbose and unpleasant to read.

xena

This was hard to read; the writer really did not come from the school of succinctness. If the writer is reading this, please try making an edit where you remove as much of the fluff and rephrase sentences like: > When I read this detail, tucked away near the end of a Guardian article, I winced to see another of my predictions come true; that the ‘Butlerian Jihad’ would soon enter public life not as mere literary metaphor, but as a kind of political vocabulary, one destined to spiral into paranoia and violence. Into something like: > This idea of the "Butlerian Jihad" horrified me. We are misunderstanding Herbert's subtle warning about humans being forced to become like machines as a rallying cry against AI companies. I fear that this will lead to paranoia and violence. I think that if the entire article was edited like that it would be a lot more readable.

sampo

2 months ago also: > A politician’s home was shot at 13 times over a data center vote. > A shooting at the home of an Indianapolis city councillor is bringing new attention to a fight that's been building in communities across the country: the growing backlash against new AI-focused data centers. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/politi...

pietervdvn

Belgian action group "Code Rood" (Code Red) is planning to occupy a data centre next week... https://code-rouge.be/

kayo_20211030

> “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” Right.

NoMoreNicksLeft

Every time I see "Butlerian Jihad", I know the person is more familiar with Brian Herbert's atrocious books than Frank's.

Schlagbohrer

This author sure has an ax to grind against an imaginary online "Left" strawman

TitaRusell

A family member of mine is mayor of a provincial town. She has to deal with protesters reenacting the Neurenberg rallies, angry drug dealers and the run of the mill psychiatric melt down citizen. There is a panic button in her penthouse. Nobody is crying about Jihad and ten years from now she will be living in the green zone.

dist-epoch

And we will lose. Like dinosaurs lost to mice, and like chimps lost to humans.

speak_plainly

It probably feels this way if you're terminally online, but the US government recently revealed the existence of UFOs and no one even blinked or cared. A minority cares, but most people have zero interest. I think the French theorist Jean Baudrillard hit the nail on the head in the 1970s (Essay: In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities). He argued that modern media and technical systems neutralize political will through saturation. As a result, the public has essentially become a massive psychological black hole that absorbs political discourse and flattens it into inertia and apathy. The public is no longer a 'proletariat' or a political class that can be awakened; instead, the masses are a silent majority that will accept every iPhone upgrade or political speech and do nothing with it. There's not going to be an uprising, few, if any will even put their phones down for a minute.

euroderf

If the Magnifica Humanitas is the germ of the Orange Catholic Bible, that's OK by me.

m463

I wonder if elon musk will be the victor here, pulling the data centers out of the gravity well and out of reach.